ibaPDA

A classic among data acquisition systems has evolved. The user interface and operational concept have been thoroughly re-designed based on our experience and our customers’ feedback. The next generation ibaPDA offers a variety of new and valuable functions. Both maintenance and production department will take advantage of an optimized data acquisition according to their needs.

Client-Server Architecture

The tasks for configuration, data acquisition, recording, and trending of live data are distributed over multiple processes in a client-server architecture. The server acquires and stores data while clients display the measured data and, with appropriate security credentials, configure the server. Client software can run locally on the server computer or on another computer in the network.

Multiple Clients

Multiple clients can access one server. Thus, any measured data from a server may be displayed on different client machines simultaneously. Each client may display independent data sets. Moreover, the server can be configured from any client with a network connection to the server. Vice versa, several servers may be configured one after the other with one client. A single client license is included with each server license while multiple client licenses may be purchased according to your needs.

Lots of Signals

Licenses based on the number of signals are available for 256, 1024, 2048 and unlimited number of signals. The key figure is the total number of signals to be measured. It is insignificant whether the signals are analog or digital or both.

Data Sources and Modules

A wide range of different data sources and interfaces can be used for data acquisition such as ibaFob, PROFIBUS, TCP/IP, OPC.

Online-Diagnostics

Integrated online diagnostics in the I/O manager provide status information and actual values for all connected data sources enabling the user to easily troubleshoot the system configuration.

Scalable Sampling Timebase

For usual measuring the sampling timebase may be set between 1 and 1000 ms. For fast measurements higher sampling rates of up to 20 kHz (50 μs) are possible.